My friend Maureen @ IslandRoar has an excellent post titled the Kindness Of Strangers. She lost her father recently and tells of herself and her daughter saying the very same thing to their respective mothers...I didn't want you to be alone. It really got to me. Then the kindness the ticket agent showed her reminded me of so many times strangers were kind to me and sometimes became friends.
Nothing like this has happened in my life recently. Just a slow trickle. Actually I'm happier in ways than I've ever been, more comfortable in my own skin as they say. But we have had our share of setbacks and today is no exception...slow to get unloaded. I'm applying for online writing jobs for a bit of extra moulah. Actually all of this started with a graduation, a wedding, a reunion, the Mexican Government and a load of pork but it's a long story still being looked into by insurance so we won't go into it here.
It (the bad luck) all started again last week with the truck breaking but we got it fixed cheap enough, just took awhile (for those of you who don't know I'm riding with my husband in his truck, I used to run his trucking company but we wanted to stay sane and got rid of it have one old truck now ugly but it's PAID FOR!....I used to sell on ebay before the recession...I used to paint and sell on ebay, I even worked @ Wally World for awhile and was groundman for a hurricane crew and gopher) anyway we have been shown much kindness that was unexpected in the last week. A friend of ours and his wife came and picked us up and let us use their vehicle to go to the motel, they had dinner with us and even looked for motels with laundry facilities in them for us. Then he took us to our other friends house the next day and he (2nd friend) took us to pick the truck up when it was fixed. Then he took my husband to KC to pick up a check (I admit I did clean said friends bachelor pad while they were gone). You ask why we didn't just go to enterprise rental? I think the nearest one was 50 miles away for one thing..... We finally got out of there and went and picked up a load in IA. We stopped to see my daughter in Wichita and she drove us countless miles when we had a tire go bad, the dog got fleas from another dog, had to go get flea spray, etc. etc...... Now we are going to get loaded it seems after all tomorrow which is good due to my husband being the fastest most dependable trucker there is but also because of the kindness of the produce broker who has saved our hides more than once this year.
This isn't a pass it forward plea or anything like that. Just take a moment and think who do you have to be thankful to or for today. Who is suffering and could benefit from just a phone call. Who haven't you forgiven? Who could just use a little help and encouragement? Who were you close to last year and why aren't you this year?
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